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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02
IN THE SLEEPER.
HOW the Gentier Sex Makes Itself
Conspicuous when Travelling

Etiquette" Chicago. ILL.,, asks: ''Will
you answer what remedy you would pre-
scribe for the great nuisance while travel
ing of being compelled to wait all the fore
noon for the female fiend who monopolzeS
one end of the sleeping-car half of the
| til We and the other end of the car the other
r. , L am lady. and nothing tends to
q scourage my efforts in trying to continue
such like this constant contact with the
average female brute who bolts herself into
| the ladies' dressing room in sleeper and
remains there all the forenoon calciminng
| her purple nose and striving to beautify her
| choatic features. Do tell us what YOU
would suggest"
That is question I have been called upon
| to settle before, but | am still worrying
| over it. do not think we ought to fritter
away our time on the tariff and other re-
mote matters until we have. once for all,
met and settled this vital question which
lies so near to every heart.
| have seen large woman take her teeth
i'll one hand and shawl-strap full of hair
| in the other and adjourn to the ladies' dress
ing-room at Camp Douglas and finally
emerge therefrOm with a Smooch of pre-
pared chalk over each eye. at Wnona. All
that time half dozen ladies in the car
! gnaWed their under lips and tried to look
happy. l have known timid young lady
| to lose her breakfast because this same
| ogress, with briStles along the back of her
neck, as usual moved into the dressing
room and lived there till the train reached
! its destination and the dining car was de.
| tached.
Some day this dressing-room will be
made on the plan of large concertha,
operated by means of clockwork, and
after this venerable hyena has lalp,dered
herself and primped and beautified and
upholstered herself and waXed her mustache
and insulted the plate-glass mirror for an
| hour or two by constantly compelling it to
reflect her features, the walls of the apart
ment will gradually approach each other
and when that woman is removed she will
look like the battle of Gettysburg.
| RIJJ NYE
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02
ON THE oTREw SIDE.
a Plea For the High HAT at the
Theaters.
Buffalo Express.

Buffalo Express.
Often mightiest on the smallest, and yet
more becoming to women than a crown,
the high hat of fashion is the target for the
sings and arrows of photographic denuncia-
ton. Dost ever think, o knight of the
pen with masculine venom tipped, how she
thou revilest would appear without
that monumental headgear which Queen
Fashion DEGREES shall rest upon those raven
Tor gOlden) tresses? Is it not woman's
mission to be beautiful, even though, like
Yum Yum. she cannot conceal a modest
consciousness of the possession of that
sometimes fatal gift? And wouldst thou
have her otherwise, o complaining man?
Prythee tell u.s. in all honesty tell us, do
you not in contemplating the variegated
vision of womanly loneliness that the Or
chestra circles present find full compensa-
ton for all that you lose of the stage spec
tacle, granting for the moment that your
view of the fOOtlightS is INSTRUCTED?
And honestly again, now, have you really
ever had 50 much difficulty in seeing the
stage performance because of high hat in
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02
PAY AS you GO.
Some Good Advice. Especially AID.
plicub9e to the Young House
keeper.

Some Good Advice. Especially AID.
plicab9e TO the Young House
Keeper.
1t is a very convenient thing, writes
Emily S. Bouton in the Toledo Blade, to
have standing account at a store where
you can go at any time, order what you
please, and have it charged, without the
worry of having to consider whether YOU
have enough money in your purse to pay
for it or not, but it is also true that these
items, small though they may be, mount
up with appalling rapidity into a
sum that always passes expectation. Be-
sides this, the very best calculators, and
those who generally use a wise economy,
buy things in this way which they could
easily do without did they take the time for
reflection which cash payments would often
compel. 1t is so easy. when an article that
seems at the time desirable is seen. to order
it sent and charged for. that temptation
Overcomes the buyer before the strength
which comes from looking at the matter on
all sides enables her to resist the impulse to
buy. Often purchases are made in this
way and regretted. while something that
was far more necessary must in consequence
be gone without
Merchants understand that a great deal
more is likely to be bought where there is a
running account than when cash is paid
down, which explains their readiness to
trust those whom they have reason to be-
lieve will pay what they honestly owe. The
excess will. i'll nine cases out of ten, more
than compensate for the loss of interest
upon the outstanding sums, though there is
no question but that they sometimes lose
large amounts by the failure of individuals
through misfortune, sickness, death. OF
deliberate rascality to discharge their
debts.
Of course there are very many women
who cannot control this matter. Their
husbands are the treasurers and dispensers
of the family finances, and cash payments
are impossible without the masculine ap-
| prevail. They see the matter only in the
| light of diamond cut diamond Their Gus
toners make them wait for their returns,
why should they not proceed in the same
| way. Nor can they be made to see, even
| from selfish point of view, that the pay
| as-you-go system, so far as family expenses
are concerned, is far cheaper in the end. to
whatever extent it can be made practicable.
| And truth to tell, it would be far easier in
most cases to carry it out than they will &C
| knowledge even to themselves.
! The women, however. who can command
the money, and those who earn their own
living, will be far wiser to adopt the rule OF
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02
Servant Girls.

Philadelphia Press.
Why should the servant girl always be
expected to occupy the kitchen or the attic?
Ii girl is nice and tidy why cannot she
take her meals at the dining table after the
family are through. and after her work is
done why not let her use the diningrOOm
for her stting-room and receive therein the
young man who may be paying his atten-
lions with the view of making her his wife?
1t will be apt to improve both of them in
more ways than one. AccuStoming them
to pleasant surroundings before marriage
will make them ambitious to save and have
nice surroundings after marriage. Why
should it always be necessary for a girl to
occupy room so cold that she breads to
wash her face in the icy water and finds it
almost impossible to comb her hair, and
then scold her for her slatternly appear
ance?
Why should not some attempt be made
to have her sleeping room coy and COM
fortable-in short, to make her. through her
own comfort, understand and study the
comforts OF others?
Again, it will certainly not detract from
the dignity of any lady to show kindly
interest i'll her kitchen employees, to ask
about her friends, to notice the new pur-
chase of dress or shawl, to make sug-
geStion about warm undergarments and
thick shoes, to give well merted praise.
If this course is pursued, depend upon it
we shall nave fewer complaints from either
party.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02

ried peace; and some die poor, pale. faint
ing little love will fall into it, stark and
plumeless, and will never rise to life again.
In the beginning these little tiffs and dis
comforts are made up with kiss from him
and few tears from her to add cement to
the reconciliation. By time the tiffs
are more acrid and the reconciliation
is less warm. By still further time
this never comes at all, and things get into
that chronic state when there is never an
open breach and never a formal healing.
but an overwhelming rift and reverend
ing GOODNESS. Then the two lives jar and
grind like rusty hinges-locl1s which mistit
the slots; wheels where the axle is stiff-or
anything else which should work together
in harmony and smoothness but which, for
want of care to keep the adjustment exact
(perhaps for want of oil to the jointsl,
creak and chafe and hang and do not fit,
to the annoyance, and more. of all the by
ISLANDERS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02

buying nothing which they cannot immedi-
ately pay for, or for which the money is at
their command in future so near as to
make 1t a certainty, than to have things
charged week after week, with the expecta-
ton OF settling it in time which may lind
them in position that will render the pay
ment most difficult matter. Uncertainty
is an element entering very largely into this
life. and those people who have the fewest
odds and ends floating out, to become tan
gled at some inopportune moment have
generally the greatest amount of happiness.
A little self denial in the present may save
you large portion of discomfort in the
future, for to the thoroughly honest person,
that one who means to deal fairly by his
kind, debt that cannot be paid is an ever
pressing nightmare
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02

front of you as you pretend to have had?
Really, aren't you joining in q senseless
TRADE against the autocrat of fashion who
DEGREES the high hat for woman's wear?
And if you are conscientious in your cru
SADIE against what you term such a nuisance,
would you not accomplish more by diplom-
acy than by swinging with such reckless
abandon the trenchant battleaX of abuse?
Artistically. the high hat adorns the
woman who wears it, Practically, it is
comfortable and in the draughty theater is
more likely to be conservator of health
than the sparse head covering or the no
head covering which you agitators favor.
Finally, We band of reformers, we who
usually drop i'm for an act, look over the
heads of the audience from the rear of the
house, and vote the whole show bore, is
the high hat such nuisance as you call it.
and have you ever heard of any one refus-
ing to go to the theater of opera because
some one else might appear there in cap
ltal adornment of possibly obstructive alti-
tude?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02
THE GIRLS THAT ARE WANTED

The girls that are wanted are good girls
Good girls from the heart to the lips;
Pure as the lily is white and pure,
From its heart to its sweet leaf tips.
The girls that are wanted are home girls
Girls that are mothers right hand.
That fathers and brothers can trust to,
And the little ones understand.
Girls that are fair on the hearthstone,
And pleasant when nobody sees;
Gnd and sweet to their own folk,
Ready and anxious to please.
he girls that are wanted are wise girls
That know what to do and to say;
That drive with smile or soft word
The wrath of the household away.
The girls that are wanted are girls OF sense,
Whom fashion can never deceive;
Who can follow whatever is pretty,
And dare, what is silly, to leave
The girls that are wanted are careful girls,
Who count what a thing will cost;
Who use with a prudent, generous hand,
But see that nothing is lost.
The girls that are wanted are girls will
hearts;
They are wanted for mothers and wives;
Wanted TO cradle in loving arms,
The strongest and frailest Of lives.
The clever, the witty, the brilliant girl,
They are very few, understands;
But oh for the wise, loving home girls
There's a constant and steady demand.
New York Ledger.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02
RER SOCIAL POSITION
| One of hree Which May Fall to the
| Lot of the Debutante.

ohG Ot II hEee w HIGH Way ait 10 LmC
Lot of the Debutante.
There are three positions which girl
may take upon her entrance into society,
says writer i'll the Boston Herald. She
may be belle-an undoubted. scintillating
belle, with host of beauX forever besieg-
ing her for turn in the waltz, for prone
made, Tor Sunday walk on the avenue
after church, for flower from her bouquet
or button from her glove. Her mamma
bursts with pride and happiness. The
well-Io-do suitorS who present themselves
in her first season are turned away in scorn
in the hope of catching rara avis in the
person of a bloated Millionaire. But
billionaires are scarce. Season after
season goes by, and the belle,
though still belle. is yet unmar-
red. and her charms begin to fade in the
critical gaze of the world that is bent
searchingly upon her. The bloom is little
less bright upon her rounded cheek, the
right less brilliant in her beautiful eyes, and
there are a thousand spiteful tongues ever
ready to proclaim loudly that she is gone
OFF, in looks at the slightest ground for
such statement. With smarting sense
Of waning destinations, at last she with
draws from the field, and, rather than risk
/
Ting left, she takes an ocean voyage and
spends a year or two in Europe. When she
etllrns it iE to settle down as a disap-
! pointed spinster. Half the sour old maids
in the world are disconnected bellies
| Peches Quinze francs to use Alexander
Dumas hackneyed phrase.
In direct contrast to the belle is the hope
| less wall-fower. The girl who immedi-
ately settles into this position might as well
| give up party going from the start, for the
| agOnieS of suspense, the tortures of getting
/ left, of sitting through dance after dance
with one unfortunate partner, are enough
| to break up any but a Spartan constitution.
| Some of the most charming and interesting
of the debutantes fall into the unhappy
ranks Of the pills" as wall flowers are
called by the witty and ingenious man
about town, and it is not easy to account
| for taste which so often leaves the gold
and takes the dross. Many is the suffering
damsel taken home by despairing mother
after supper, since her charms have
failed to secure for her part.
ner for the german, and that, too
when scores of partnerless dandes, eXqui-
Isite and languid lounge around the door
and lift amused eyebrows as the martyr tC
social abuses goes by. Why these foolish
Icreatures persist in accepting invitations
and presenting themselves for repetition
of this same humiliating performance night
after night is a mystery that no philoso
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02
GOOD MANNERS
Combined with Tact They Form the
Groundwork of Society.

Gr0un1WOEk Oh society.
Good manners are best cultivated in the
qualities productive of them, for actual
manner is not a thing to be studied in the
strict sense of the word, says the Home
Journal. Outward behavior, shaped with
elaborate design. is destructive of all true
ease and gracefulness. and there is no more
inevitable failure than atfectation, which,
with its pretentiOuS absurdities and insn-
ceritieS, is largely the bane of modern man
ners. La Rochefoucauld says truly: ION
nest jamaiS 81 rid!cule par les qualities que
Pom a, que par celles que fon affecte
d'ayoir" and those who attempt to model
their exterior conduct upon that OF
others only succeed in resembling the
tabled jackdaW Of borrowed plumeS.
Even should affectation have tenn
porary success, it will not WHATSOEVER OIL
later what is beneath comes to light and
none but the genuinely natural manner is
really successful in the long run. But al
though manner itself is not to be studied,
the many qualities, such as sympathy. for
bearance. thoughtfulneSS and unseliShneSs,
which are the root and foundation of what
is best in manners, may be practiced by all.
1t is not given to every one to be brilliant
talker, but every one who chooses can be
that rarer and often more appreciated thing
"a good listener. Manners and converse
ton are SO closely connected that either
subject naturally includes the other, and al
authorities on the art of conve rsation
agree that the first requisit to excel in
is to listen with attenti on; yet, thoug
this duty is often inculcated, ant
is demonstrated by daily experience
so difficult is it to listen well thai
few attain the capabllity to even a moder
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02
PRETTY NELLIE Was.
Her Debut into Society at the
Capital.
Washington Letter.

Washington Letter.
What with driving out to Calumet Place
to pay respects to the family of the de-
parted senator and five teas between the
hours of 4 and this afternoon, society at
the capital had enough to do The post
master general and Mrs. Villas gave tea
this afternoon to introduce their oldest
daughter, Miss Nellie, to their friends. The
windows were closed up and the rooms
brilliantly lighted, so that the change from
daylight to dark was not noted by the
callers.
Mrs. Villas stood just within the first
drawing-room door, attired in a dress of
black silk, covered with jetted laces. The
corSage was cut square, and the opening
| filed with black tulle, clasped with a dia-
mond bar. Short sleeves of ietted lace
| were almost met by long black gloves of
| kid. She Wore handful of Cornelia Cook
rosebuds at her breast.
Miss Villas wore pretty toilet in cream
| tints. The skirt of satin was lowered with
| deep point laces in the front and demi-
| train at the back. The basque was made
of crepe Duchine, with square opening
laid with folds of the crepe garnished with
knots of MORE ribbon The neck was
cut half high, and string of gold beads
| WAS Jl6u dUOuG pLcbIS MISS
Villas is of medium height with graceful.
slender figure, delicately outlined She has
| a pointed face, softly rounded and tinted
| like wild rose-leaf. Her forehead Is high
and broad, and she wears her dark hair
combed up from it la Mrs. Cleveland.
Her eyes are large and lustrous and full of
gentle and kindly expression.
Miss Villas bouquets were heaped upon a
| table across the room where she stood at
| her mothers side. Miss Loulu Eustis, the
pretty granddaughter of Mr.. w. W.
| Corcoran; Miss Maria Eutis, the
| daughter of Senator Eustis, and also a
pretty girl of the wid-rose style;
! Mrs. DR.. Brown; Mrs. j. Randolph
! Tucker, wife of the Virginia representative.
| and Miss Tucker, were in the reception
| line. In the second drawng-room was
long table, and at window-recess at one
| end of it sat Miss Eineor Foster the
} charming daughter of Hon. John w. Fos-
| ter presiding over tea service, and at the
other end of the table Miss Johnston, of
Chicago, a cousin of Mrs. Villas, drew
coffee from a Samovar, and a fairy lamp.
with pink shade, lighted up the scene.
| In the dining-rO0m corps of walters served
a most elaborate collation. or supper. The
rooms were literally packed. and people
made their way through the house with
difficulty.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02
UPON HE X EAR.

Upon her here the ripping shade
a sheen of green with gold inlaid--
Descending, fiecks her tawny hair,
Whose perfumed tresses are the lair
OF tiny sprite and fairy naiad.
Upon a book her glance is staid
AS ! approach; and half afraid,
1 softly kneel and kiss her there
Upon her ear.
She turns upon me to upbraid.
A slap-my knightly accolade--
Resounds upon the drowsy air;
And | can naught but start and stare,
AS off she walks, that angry maid,
Upon her ear.
John Melgert, in the Rambler.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02
APAR Il.

L hear the frou-frou of her dress
Sweep unsteady by,
And watch her proud, young loneliness,
With eager jealous eye.
/ see the jewels at her breast,
The roses in her hair,
Her blue etes wander as in quest
OF one who is not there.
Strange chance it is her glance should fab
On me, moments space;
A curious glance, yet sweet withal,
That glorifies her face.
Oh, rapturous moment, lest to me!
Love fain must fly away.
Alas! I'm in the gallery,
And she's in the parquet!
E. d. Pierson in The Theater.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02
About Mothers.

The Culver.
In reading the biographies of great men,
we are often struck by the love they had
for their mothers, to whom they attributed
all their greatness. Curran spoke with
great affection of his mother, as a woman
of strong original understanding. to whose
wise counsel, consistent pety and lessons
of honorable ambition, which she diligently
enforced on the minds of the children, he
himself principally attributed his success i'll
life. The only inheritance" he used TO
say. ''that [ could boast of from my poor
father, was the very Scanty one OF an un-
attractive face and person, like his own;
and if the world has ever attributed to ME
something more valuable than face or per-
son, or than earthly wealth. it was because
another and dearer parent gave her child
portion from the treasure of her mind. -
De Maistre described his sublime mother
as IAN angel to whom God had lent body
for brief season." He said that her noble
character made all other women venerable
in his eyes.
Happy he
With such mother! Faith in womankind
Beats with his blood and trust in all things
high
Comes easy to him, and though he trip and
fall,
He shall not blind his soul with clay
George Washington was only II years of
age-the eldest of five children-when his
father died. The widowed mother had her
children to educate and bring up, a large
household to govern and extensive estates to
manage all of which she accomplished with
complete success. Her good sense, tender
ness. industry and vigilance enabled her to
overcome every obstacle, and as the richest
raWnrd of har Snlioituda and Toll che had
the happiness to see all her children come
forward with fair promise into life. fill
ing the places allotted to them in a man
ner equally honorable to themselves and
to the parent who had been the only
guide of their principles and habits Mrs.
Washington used daily to gather her little
flock around her to read to them lessons OF
Christian religion and morality. and her
little manual in which she wrote the max
inns which guided her was preserved by her
son and consulted by him as among his
most precious treasures.
dvice TO Young Married People.
Young wives and husbands cannot be too
strongly reminded of the probable ship
wreck they will make of their happiness if
they yield to that ill-temper which expresses
itself in discOurteSy, want of compliance,
unnecessary opposition. and, above all, that
most disastrous amusement of 'nagging"
and creating a row, says a recent writer.
Hundreds of households have gone wrong
for the mere want of checking in time the
habit of annoying as relief to momen-
tary feeling of irritation or discomfort.
The wife who gets into the way of con-
tradicting, of checking" her husband.
of opposing him in small things and
standing out in large ones-the husband,
who is sneering, contemptuous, tyrannical
fault neutrality-suspicious. neither side know
ing the whole extent of its folly, but just
giving way to it as more easy than to fight
and conquer it-these young people are do
ing their best to dig the grave of their mar
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02

BUY LOyeriHg's shoes
Now and get 25 per cent. off on every pur-
chase.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-02
THE WOMAN'S GLOBE.
intimate Relation Between Social CONVEX
sation and the Possession of Good
Manners.
Three Different Positions Confronting
Young Women Upon Their En-
trance in Society.
Advantage to Young Housekeepers OF
the Cash System as Opposed to
Credit Arrangements.

The Typical Woman of the Sleeping
Car--Pertinent Advice to Young
Married People.